Atheism Considered: A Survey of the Rational Rejection of Religious Belief

ISBN-13: 9783030562076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 291 str.

C. M. Lorkowski

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2: Of the Philosophy of Religion and Its Methodology

Chapter 3: Atheism and Atheists

Chapter 4: The Burden of Proof

Chapter 5: Theology and Reason

Chapter 6: Ontological Arguments

Chapter 7: Cosmological Arguments

Chapter 8: Design Arguments

Chapter 9: Conclusions Regarding Existential Natural Theology

Chapter 10: The Concept(s) of God

Chapter 11: The Problems of Evil- Logical, Evidential, and Moral

Chapter 12: The Character of Revelation

Chapter 13: Challenges to Sacred Texts

Chapter 14: Challenges to Miracles

Chapter 15: Challenges to Religious Experience

Chapter 16: Moral Critiques to Religion

Chapter 17: Personal Survival and the Afterlife

Chapter 18: The Case against Christianity

Chapter 19: Naturalism in the Sciences

Chapter 20: A Soulless World

Chapter 21 The Naturalization of Religion

Chapter 22: The Loss of Though Shalt

Chapter 23: Excising God from Value

Chapter 24: Concluding Thoughts

O autorze

C.M. Lorkowski teaches philosophy and religion for the Trumbull branch of Kent State University and has won multiple teaching awards. He has authored several articles in the philosophy of religion and early modern philosophy, and serves as an editor at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Blurb

Atheism Considered is a systematic presentation of challenges to the existence of a higher power. Rather than engage in polemic against a religious worldview, C.M. Lorkowski charitably refutes the classical arguments for the existence of god, pointing out flaws in their underlying reasoning and highlighting difficulties inherent to revealed sources.  In place of a theistic worldview, he argues for adopting a naturalistic one, highlighting naturalism’s capacity to explain world phenomena and contribute to the sciences. Lorkowski demonstrates that replacing theism with naturalism, contra popular assumptions, sacrifices nothing in terms of ethics or meaning.  Instead, morality ultimately proves more important than religion and does not rely on it. Appropriate for classroom use, this book is meant to cultivate understanding, tolerance, and fruitful dialogue between believers and nonbelievers.